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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like few women, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce found herself last winter with an outstanding position in public life but also acutely aware of its hardships and harassments. Besides, she had become a Catholic and there were other things she wanted to do (mainly writing). Wherefore she announced that - definitely - she would not run again for the House. But what about the Senate? People wondered whether Clare Luce could really bring herself to give up a very good chance of becoming the first woman ever elected, in her own right, to the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECTICUT: Good Governor & Fighting Lady | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...other-Baldwin or Luce-would have to run for the Senate. They were the two top Republican votegetters in Connecticut. Last week Ray Baldwin and Clare Luce sat down to find out who meant what most. Result: Governor Baldwin agreed to give up the money and run for the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECTICUT: Good Governor & Fighting Lady | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Clare Boothe Luce took a breather in her fight for civilian control of atomic energy, gave her House colleagues a peek at the shape of things to come. Minnesota's Representative Walter H. Judd started it all by observing that radioactive elements might be used to transmute the human species. While they were about it, suggested Mrs. Luce, let's transmute all women into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce is the greatest nigger-lover in the North- except Old Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Yep, Old Lady Roosevelt is worse. ... In Washington she forced our Southern girls to use the stools and the toilets of damn syphilitic nigger women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Prince of the Peckerwoods | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Oddly enough, there is nothing to prevent a Canadian firm from taking over and publishing a banned book like Bernard Clare. The responsibility for its approval or rejection then rests with the attorneys general of the different provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Farrell v. Sim | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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